Consumer ratings: BOSS 639UA

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Category: Electronics
Brand: BOSS
Model: 639UA
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BOSS 639UA Consumers Report

BOSS 639UA Review by nicochiva

good stereo for the $ but the only thing it bother me is the light at night . other wise a good product

BOSS 639UA Review by B. C. Cummings (Central Wisconsin)

First of all, I have been installing car audio for about 10 years now. I have had my share of really good head units and not so good ones.

I will review in order of things that I don't like about it.

1) The display - it says you can choose a color for the display to stay on. Not true (at least it doesn't say how to do it, nor does the head unit or remote have a display button/option). It also doesn't come with a dimmer switch so at night it is brightly flashing pink blue green and red hues at you from the volume knob. (Note: The actual display section doesn't do this, just the ring around the knob). It is highly distracting and could be a safety risk to people with night blindness/sensitivity to light.

2) CD's - Take about 30 seconds to load.

3) Radio - This is a 50/50 for me. I bought two of these, one for each of my winter cars. One vehicle gets better reception then its previous head unit, the other car now doesn't get any radio stations when it used to have strong reception. So take this part of the review with a grain of salt, I may have just received a faulty unit.

4) Sound - Do not buy this if you are looking to run a sound system through it. The bass response it sends is horrible. I am running two brand new Alpine Type R12's with a Alpine 1200 watt amp. They sounded BEAUTIFUL with a different head unit. I disconnected them from this one. You basically have two options - super quiet bass or distorted bass. Also, when you switch a song on either a CD or SD card sound will only go to the subs for about 3 seconds before the interior speakers put out any sound. Small issue but annoying.

5) SD Card - You can load plenty of songs up on the sd card, rearrange them in the order you want them, put them in the head unit. When you start playing them on the head unit, they are not in the same order they were. I found this to be irritating as I had organized approximately 200 songs in an order where I would be able to easily find a particular song that I would want to listen to. But once its in the head unit, its rearranged with no ryhme or reason as to how.

Things I Liked About It:

1) It did its job.

General overview: It does everything it says it will - It just does it poorly. This would be a good head unit for some one with out a aftermarket system that doesnt mind the other two nuances: Rearranging of songs on the SD card, and the music being muted (except for bass) for the first three seconds of a song everytime you switch songs (on either CD or SD)

BOSS 639UA Review by Martin Jedlicka "MartyUtah" (Park City, Utah)

While this unit is a major improvement over my Ford truck's factory stereo, I had to spend some time disassembling the faceplate in order to disable the color spectrum display on the control dial. There is no other way to avoid the crazy clown light show blinking colors at slow and fast intervals continuously from my dash. Product description indicated this color cycling could be programmed to stop at a particular color, but that is just not so. It's a defective feature and probably is the reason why this model is deeply discounted.

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